Watrous Automobile Company

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Watrous Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1905
Seat Elmira , New York , USA
management Thomas S. Watrous
Branch Automobiles

Watrous Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas S. Watrous founded the company in early 1905. The seat was in Elmira , New York . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Watrous . Production ended in 1905.

vehicles

Watrous made particularly cheap vehicles and hoped that this would generate good sales. The vehicles did not prove themselves. Disparaging remarks were waterless, gearless, powerless watrous or waterless, gearless, powerless, useless watrous, i.e. waterless, gearless, powerless, useless.

The vehicles had a two-cylinder engine with air cooling . It made 12 hp . It drove the rear axle via a friction gear . The chassis had a wheelbase of 203 cm or 216 cm, depending on the model . The Model C was shorter and bodied as a runabout with two seats. The longer Model B is referred to in one source as the Detachable Tonneau and in another source as a five-seat touring car . New prices were $ 400 and $ 500, respectively. The solid rubber tires , which at that time were only found on highwheelers, were completely out of date .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1905 Model B 2 12 216 Detachable tonneau
1905 Model C 2 12 203 Runabout

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1519 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1727 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1519 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1727 (English).